Reply To: Typing special foreign-language accented characters

Windows or Mac? If the former, have you tried Microsoft’s Maori input system described here? If Mac, perhaps SIL’s <a
href=”https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele”>Ukelele would let you customize input.

There is also Kahrel’s Compose javascript, though he warns this is better for multi-lingual work rather than typing in a particular language.

I confess I have not tried either of the keyboard-driver fixes, though I type a fair amount of macron vowels (for romanizing Japanese or for Chinese pinyin tones). Often I add a digit “one” after the vowel which I later search-and-replace — as you say, inelegant. I’ve also toyed with the idea of using MS Word’s auto-correct to automate the replacement, but never actually gotten that far.

David